An exceptional exhibition by the renowned artsit GEORGE BAHGOURY, which will feature a variety of artworks between paintings and sculptures from various phases in his journey!

About the Artist

Luxor-born George Bahgoury, dubbed ‘The Granddaddy Of Egyptian Caricature’, is an Egyptian-French contemporary artist who palms an exceptional mastery over painting, sculpting, and caricature amongst many other artistic mediums. Bahgoury made his way to the top of the Egyptian art scene with steady steps that started by studying at the Fine Arts Faculty in Zamalek, then later moved on to study fine arts at Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Before making a name for himself as a world renowned cubist painter, George Bahgoury initiated his career in art as a cartoonist in the Egyptian publication ‘Rose El-Youssef’, in 1950; where his piercing reflections of the political and cultural zeitgeist of the time made him rise to prominence among Egypt’s best cartoonists and caricature artists. With the Nasserist ideology of Pan-Arabism, women’s rights and national reform seeping into Bahgoury and his peers’ work at the time, he skillfully integrated various notions of Egypt’s culture and national history into his work, and naturally, George Bahgoury’s figurative style, satire, and political awareness transposed to his paintings.